In 1808, when the international slave trade was abolished, many southerners thought slavery would soon end. But during the next generation, they were proven wrong as slavery started expanding into the west.
It seemed politically challenging to maintain slavery equally throughout the west.
In 1818, 10 states were for slavery, and 11 were against slavery. But then, Alabama desided to allow slavery in the state, balancing the Senate.
In 1819, Missouri then wanted to enter the Union as a slave state. Many northerners had reacted strongly against Missouri. Their admition would:
-Disturb the balance in the Senate where each state had two votes
-Add two more senators from a slave state
-Then cause the south to be more powerful than the north
In 1819, the Representative in New York, James Tallmadge, declared the Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
Maine applied for admission into the Union as a free state.
In 1820, Henry Clay persuaded Congress to adopt the Missouri Compromise
This would:
-Allow Maine to be admitted as a free state
-Allow Missouri to be admitted as a slave state
-Allow the Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri to be free of slavery
-Give southern slave owners a right to pursue escaped fugitives into "free" regions and then have them returned to slavery.
The Missouri Compromise revealed how much sectional rivalries divided the states of the Union. It balanced the northerners interests and the southerners interests.
On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend:
"This momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ... We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go."
The Extension of Slavery: To the West
objective: Describe how far slavery went
In 1808, when the international slave trade was abolished, many southerners thought slavery would soon end. But during the next generation, they were proven wrong as slavery started expanding into the west.
It seemed politically challenging to maintain slavery equally throughout the west.
In 1818, 10 states were for slavery, and 11 were against slavery. But then, Alabama desided to allow slavery in the state, balancing the Senate.
In 1819, Missouri then wanted to enter the Union as a slave state. Many northerners had reacted strongly against Missouri. Their admition would:
-Disturb the balance in the Senate where each state had two votes
-Add two more senators from a slave state
-Then cause the south to be more powerful than the north
In 1819, the Representative in New York, James Tallmadge, declared the Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
Maine applied for admission into the Union as a free state.
In 1820, Henry Clay persuaded Congress to adopt the Missouri CompromiseThis would:
-Allow Maine to be admitted as a free state
-Allow Missouri to be admitted as a slave state
-Allow the Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri to be free of slavery
-Give southern slave owners a right to pursue escaped fugitives into "free" regions and then have them returned to slavery.
The Missouri Compromise revealed how much sectional rivalries divided the states of the Union. It balanced the northerners interests and the southerners interests.
On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend:
"This momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ... We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go."
Link to Website:
http://www.countrystudies.us/united-states/history-47.htm
Link to Graphic:
http://eletratig.blogspot.com/2009/05/henry-clay-outsmarts-john-randolph-of.html